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Welcome or Welcome Back

It’s day 1, post 1 of the new site. So far not too many teething pains in the move from Blogger. However, putting images at the head of a post is not as intuitive or as simple as it used to be. Much easier in the old girl, Blogger. There you get a browse for

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Leopard, leopard burning bright …

Apologies to William Blake, but the delivery guy has just handed me my copy of OX 10.5 aka Leopard. Yes, it’s October 26th in Australia, and we have the big cat at last. Hubba, hubba … I could be gone for some time, or there goes the weekend!

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Design Really Does Matter

Stumbled upon this vidcast from Canadian educator Dean Shareski given at the 2007 K-12 Online Conference. Dean’s nicely produced 25′ video discusses the importance of design in education. He’s even produced a teaser trailer on YouTube. Now that’s innovative! Dean roams across design principles introducing some innovative ways of thinking about classroom space as well

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Rediscovering the Podcast: My Top Picks

I’ve been in blogland for months, have produced no podcasts, and I’m starting to feel withdrawl symptoms! I’m prepping for another couple of lectures in a theatre history course I share with a colleague. I’m itching to accommodate the new Keynote audio feature, but think I’ll stick with Garageband to produce the podcast. I’ve written

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